People are way to obsessed with our combustion damage and lining it up with every single procc in the game, combustion isn't doing as much of our damage as it was ealier in this expansion due to the nerf, I never wait for any procs at all before combusting due to the rng nature of RPPM.

This needs to be emphasized more than anything. No one should assume a proc will be up for combustion, its a nice bonus but not required/expected for good dps. I get tired of of the constant complaining

Just get your non-Alter Timed Combustion off without much fuss, but you should attempt to have at least one proc up for the Alter Times ones as they are, in fact, a large portion of your immediate damage.

Just get your non-Alter Timed Combustion off without much fuss, but you should attempt to have at least one proc up for the Alter Times ones as they are, in fact, a large portion of your immediate damage.

And by attempt you mean exactly what? We can't control anything about our procs anymore except for the pull where we usually have a few procs anyways. The only time you would wanna hold off to see if you can get a proc or two is if that's gonna be your last combustion & even then it's not allways the smartest decision.

And by attempt you mean exactly what? We can't control anything about our procs anymore except for the pull where we usually have a few procs anyways. The only time you would wanna hold off to see if you can get a proc or two is if that's gonna be your last combustion & even then it's not allways the smartest decision.

Waiting for a couple of procs for my Alter Timed Combustion has served me well so far and seems to be a significant DPS increase over just getting it out of the way. :-)

Waiting for a couple of procs for my Alter Timed Combustion has served me well so far and seems to be a significant DPS increase over just getting it out of the way. :-)

Might be the case sometimes but due to RPPM you might aswell just sit there for 20 seconds not getting anything wasting your time, if you wanna take the risk go ahead but it's never worth delaying your combustion more then a few seconds unless it's the last one you're gonna pop & the boss isn't gonna die in the next 30 seconds or so. This was even true for T14 when we had ICD trinkets who where pretty guaranteed to proc, you only wanted to wait around 5-6 seconds tops oterwise it would be more worth it to pop your cooldowns without them if my memory serves me right.

Might be the case sometimes but due to RPPM you might aswell just sit there for 20 seconds not getting anything wasting your time, if you wanna take the risk go ahead but it's never worth delaying your combustion more then a few seconds unless it's the last one you're gonna pop & the boss isn't gonna die in the next 30 seconds or so. This was even true for T14 when we had ICD trinkets who where pretty guaranteed to proc, you only wanted to wait around 5-6 seconds tops oterwise it would be more worth it to pop your cooldowns without them if my memory serves me right.

It is true that it's not worth delaying for an extended amount of time, but I have noticed that I consistently get higher overall damage by making sure that my AT Combustions are as high as possible. That's at least how I've gotten my rank ones these past couple of tiers - stack the AT Combusts to the max while just getting the non-AT Combustions out of the way with little care. Perhaps only 2 Pyro crits. :-P